Alumni Benjamin Winger (PhD, Evolutionary Biology, 2015), now an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, and assistant curator at the Museum of Zoology, co-authored a study that found that increasing climate temperatures could be affecting the size of birds. Winger stated, "Warming temperatures seem to be having a pretty consistent and almost universal effect on a large number of different species, regardless of other aspects of their biology."
Learn more about his research at The Scientist.